I’m a deputy headteacher, focusing on how to improve the culture, curriculum and teaching in schools. Psychology Cognitive Psychology Why students forget Science of learning Science of memory Three applications of cognitive science Moral psychology Psychology of self-control Student Culture Ethos Self-discipline Willpower Behaviour Gratitude Rewards Motivation and instruction Motivation and emotion Motivation […]
Winston Churchill once said ‘success is stumbling from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.’ Looking back now on assessment in our first year at Michaela, I can now see what I was blind to then: we stumbled and blundered. What mistakes did we make, and how did we stumble? We spent hours marking. We spent ages […]
Some two thousand years ago, a teacher, a playwright and an emperor asked: What is the best way to live? How can we deal with the difficult situations we face? What does it take to improve our minds? Their answers are the heart of Stoic philosophy. We in schools can use their insights on the […]
Imagine working for an organisation where there are no annual performance meetings, no bureaucracy, where you do not need permission to take time off, and where the expense policy is just five words long: ‘act in our best interest’. Imagine working for an organisation where every person you work with is someone you admire and […]
“Education made Shakespeare what he was” Soul of the Age: Life, Mind and World: Jonathan Bate ‘with his Tiger’s heart wrapped in a player’s hide … Shakes-scene’ Robert Greene, Shakespeare’s contemporary “Shakespeare’s schooling provided an excellent resource for the future playwright. Everything Shakespeare learned at school he used in some way in his plays. Having […]
